HARDWOOD RECORD 



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"meet up*' at Huttig on the date named will be 

 gladly welcomed. 



E. C. Mei'shon, manager o£ W. B. Mersbon & 

 Co., of Saginaw, Mich., the well-known resaw 

 manufacturers, spent several days in Chicago 

 last week, and incidentally called on the HAitn- 

 wooD Recokd. Mr. Mershon was here in at- 

 tendance upon the taking of testimony in the 

 now famous band saw patent case of W. B. 

 Mershon & Co. vs. the Berlin Machine Works. 



Jesse W. Thompson, of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, was in town last 

 week on a sales expedition. 



N. A. Gladding, secretary and sales manager 

 of E. C. Atkins & Co.. Inc., the big saw manu- 

 facturing house of Indianapolis, was a welcome 

 caller at the Record office on Tuesday. Mr. 

 Gladding was just in from a visit to the com- 

 pany's New York branch house, and left Chi- 

 cago the same day of his arrival for a trip to 

 Denver. lie reports that even after doubling 

 the capacity of the big Indianapolis plant, the 

 house is completely swamped with business. 



Lewis Doster, the energetic secretary of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United Slates, was in the city last Saturday in 

 conference with President Wilms. 



John N. Penrod, president of the American 

 Walnut Company of Kansas City, gladdened 

 his Chicago friends with a call a few days ago. 

 Mr. Penrod has spent so much time in Europe 

 during the past year that he has been rarely 

 seen in Chicago. He reports walnut conditions 

 abroad as very much improved and .says that 

 there seems to be a renaissance of home wal- 

 nut demand. 



Wm, J. Wagstaff, reputed to live at Oshkosh, 

 dropped into the R'ecoru office a moment on 

 Monday to announce that Wisconsin hardwoods 

 had advanced in price and that trade was 

 "bully." 



E. J. Young of the big hardwood house of 

 Brittingham & Young. Madison, Wis., was in 

 town a few days this week on business for his 

 concern. 



C. S. Bacon of the Bacon Lumber Company of 

 Grand Kapids, Mich., spent a few hours in Chi- 

 cago on his way back to his headquarters from 

 the oak flooring trade as very active and that 

 a trip to his hardwood operations at Tremont, 

 La. 



D. S. Hutchinson, manager of the Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, illumined the Rec- 

 ord otfice on Tuesday. Mr. Hutchinson reports 

 his company has increased its equipment mate- 

 rially in an attempt to keep up with orders. 



Boston. 



Jasper F. Pope, one of the best known lumber 

 dealers in Massachusetts, died at his home in 

 Beverly, Mass., Jan. 27. While in a barber shop 

 he was taken ill and was removed to his home 

 where he lived but two hours. Apoplexy was 

 the cause of his death. Mr. Pope had conducted 

 a lumber business in Beverly for many years, 

 and for several years was associated with his 

 son, Jasper R. Pope, under the firm name of 

 J. F. Pope & Son. Mr. Pope was 74 years of 

 age. 



Bent E. Horton of North Clarendon, Vt., died 

 recently at the age of 58 years. Mr. Horton has 

 carried on a general lumber manufacturing busi- 

 ness for 25 years. 



The Metropolitan Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $2,000. The in- 

 corporators are Norman J. MacGaffln, Anna Mo- 

 riarty and Lawrence E. Lassen. 



The Maine Spool .S: Wood Turning Company 

 has been incorporated at Augusta, Me., with a 

 capital of .$100,000, 



The birch mill owned by Russell Bros., Estes 

 & Co, of Farmington, Me., has been destroyed 

 by fire, causing a loss of about $3,500. The 

 plant was not insured. It will probably be re- 

 built. 



Tlie Deerfleld Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized with a capital of ,$200,000. The chief 

 factors in this company are William H. Wood 

 of W. H. Wood & Co., Cambridge, Mass., and 



A. N. Blandis of Bath, Me. These gentlemen 

 liave purchased 16,000 acres of timber land and 

 secured the stumpage rights on 8,000 more in 

 tlie towns of Wilmington, Somerset, Learsburg, 

 Marlboro, W. Dover and Glastenbury of Ver- 

 mont. This property was owned by the Deer- 

 lield River Company. The latter company, of 

 which Moses Newton of Ilolyoke, Mass., Is presi- 

 dent, and M. A. Brown of Wilmington, Vt., is 

 treasurer, will hereafter conduct only a whole- 

 sale lumber business. 



C. S. Weutworth of Chas. S. Wentworth & 

 Co. reports a good volume of business. Mr. 

 Wentworth returned last week from a trip to 

 New Brunswick. 



Max Kosse of the K. & P. Lumber Company 

 of Cincinnati, Ohio, was in Boston last week. 

 He reported but little lumber ready to ship, 

 but stated that he expected to get out a large 

 lot this spring. 



Frank Lawrence of Lawrence vSc Wiggin says 

 that the outlook is that northern hardwoods 

 will be ver.y scarca and prices firm, owing to the 

 scarcity of snow in the woods. The car short- 

 age has also tended to make spot stocks firmer. 



James R. Hall of the Hall Lumber Company 

 has returned from a trip to New Brunswick. 



The Ritchie & Lfford mill at Greensboro, Vt., 

 has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 

 about $12,000. 



The new woodworking plant of A. N. Booth 

 of Worcester, Mass., has been started up. Mr. 

 Booth will get out builders' finish. 



The Stamford Lumber Company of Stamford, 

 Conn., recently incorporated, has absorbed the 

 Frank Miller Lumber Company of the same city. 



New York. 



E. M. Terry, for many years associated with 

 Price & Hart, was elected secretary and traffic 

 manager of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association at its annual meeting in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, last week to succeed Elliott Lang, 

 resigned. Mr. Terry is thoroughly cjualified for 

 the work he has taken up. 



News has just reached here that as a result 

 of a conference last week at Ottawa, Can., be- 

 tween the railroad oIDcials and the Ottawa Val- 

 ley lumbermen and several New Y'ork shippers, 

 (he rail lines have agreed to maintain the meas- 

 urement rate basis (so much per thousand feet 

 B. M.) from Ottawa Valley points to New York 

 for 1906. 



C. O. Shepherd, local manager of the Empo- 

 rium Lumber Company, large hardwood pro- 

 ducers of Pennsylvania, reports that his com- 

 pany has just purchased the big holdings of the 

 Silas Griffith estate in Vermont, 50,000 acres, 

 and now controls over 250,000 acres of timber 

 lands in Tennessee, North Carolina, Pennsyiva' 

 nia. New York and Vermont. 



The principals in Willson, Adams & Co., one 

 of the biggest houses in the district, have pur- 

 chased an interest in the Cross, Austin & Ire- 

 land Lumber Company, the big Brooklyn re- 

 tailers. It is not an amalgamation of the two 

 houses, but simply an investment. At the same 

 time it closely affiliates two of the first concerns 

 in the market and is a most important trans- 

 action. 



The Pennsylvania Door & Sash Company has 

 given up its local office at 18 Broadway, making 

 Philadelphia headquarters. C. E. Reeb, late rep- 

 resentative, has formed a partnership with T. J. 

 Dinkin, as Reeb & Dinkin, in the old office, and 

 will handle a full line of pine, cypress and hard- 

 wood sash, doors and trim, with good mill con- 

 nections. 



R. W. Higbie, wholesaler and manufacturer, 

 45 Broadway, has finished up and closed his 

 West Virginia operations and has just taken 

 title to 30,000 acres of hardwoods, spruce and 

 hemlock in St. Lawrence county. New York. 

 He has formed the R. W. Higbie Company of 

 Newton Falls to operate it, and associated with 

 him are prominent Long Island bankers and ex- 

 perienced Adirondack lumbermen. A Clark 

 mill of 40,000 feet capacity is being erected. 



with six miles of railroad, and operations will 

 start as soon as possible. The product will be 

 marketed by Mr. Iligbie's local office. The tract 

 contains about 130,000,000 feet of timber. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber Under- 

 writers was held Jan. IS with a big majority 

 present. Total assets Dec. 31 were .fl05.542, 

 with surplus over all liabilities of $95,150.51, to 

 say nothing of the resources of the individual 

 underwriters, each of whom is unlimitediy lia- 

 ble for all his fortune, if necessary, unc^er the 

 plan of operation. The underwriters' policy is 

 really backed by about $9,000,000. 



H. M. Sussweiu, hardwood retailer of Man- 

 hattan, has sold a portion of his property there 

 and has purchased a big piece of water front 

 at Long Island City to which he will remove in 

 the near future, after laying out the premises 

 in a strictly upto date manner. He has also 

 taken an interest in the new Unionport Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, Unionport, Bronx, 

 which is about to start in the trade and of 

 which he is secretary, 



Sam E. Barr, for the past year head of the 

 local office of the Barr & Mills Company, Flat- 

 iron building, has sold his interest in that com- 

 pany and has engaged on his own account at 

 the same location, as Sam E. Barr. He will 

 handle a full line of hardwoods and maple 



ERNEST M. ritlCE, DECEASED. TRICE & 

 HART, NEW YORK CITY. 



flooring, being eastern agent for the Kerry & 

 Hanson Flooring Company of Grayling, Mich. 

 He has made a host of friends here, who will 

 be glad to wish him still better luck in the 

 future. 



J. C. Turner, the cypress king, is on a trip 

 to the South. Rumor has it that he has just 

 purchased a big body of Florida timber at 

 $750,000. 



T. S. Miller, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Stevens-Eaton Company, 1 

 Madison ave., is Just back from a trip south 

 where he corralled 5,000,000 feet. Just at the 

 present time he is a little long on plain oak. 



The C. F. Fisher Lumber Company, 1928 

 Park avenue, in addition to completely reorgan- 

 izing the various departments of the business, 

 has purchased a complete saw and planing mill 

 which will be operated under the style of the 

 Harlem Planing & Saw Mill. Mr. Fisher has an 

 exceptionally fine outfit. 



The Albemarle Lumber Selling Association, 

 recently Incorporated with office at 32 Broad- 

 way, will handle the tupelo gum, cypress and 

 hardwood products manufactured by the Eastern 

 North Carolina Timber Company, of Jamesburg, 

 N. C. 



The annual banquet of the New York Lum- 

 ber Trade Association at the Waldorf. Jan. 23, 



